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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shorten |
| Synonyms: | abridge, abstract, boil down, clip, compress, condense, contract, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off, cut out, digest, encapsulate, get to the meat, pare, prune, put in a nutshell, reduce, summarize, take out, trim |
| Antonyms: | amplify, enlarge, expand, extend, increase, lengthen |
| Main Entry: | compendious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abridged |
| Synonyms: | abbreviated, breviloquent, brief, close, compact, compendiary, comprehensive, concise, condensed, contracted, curt, inclusive, laconic, short, short and sweet, succinct, summarized, summary, synoptic |
| Antonyms: | enlarged, lengthened, unabridged |
| Main Entry: | short |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abridged |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, abbreviated, aphoristic, bare, boiled down, breviloquent, brief, compendiary, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, curtailed, curtate, cut short, cut to the bone, decreased, decurtate, diminished, epigrammatic, fleeting, in a nutshell, laconic, lessened, little, momentary, not protracted, pithy, pointed, precise, sententious, short and sweet, short-lived, short-term, shortened, succinct, summarized, summary, terse, undersized, unprolonged, unsustained |
| Antonyms: | large, lengthy, long, unabridged |
| Main Entry: | short |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not tall |
| Synonyms: | abbreviated, chunky, close to the ground, compact, diminutive, little, low, not long, petite, pint-sized, pocket, pocket-sized, runty, sawed-off, skimpy, slight, small, squat, squatty, stocky, stubby, stunted, thick, thickset, tiny, undersized, wee |
| Antonyms: | high, lengthy, long, tall |
| Main Entry: | thumbnail |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | condensed |
| Synonyms: | abbreviated, abridged, brief, compact, concise, contracted, curtailed, epigrammatic, short, short and sweet, succinct, summary, to the point, truncated |
| Main Entry: | reduced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | made smaller |
| Synonyms: | abbreviated, abridged, compressed, concentrated, condensed, contracted, cut down, decreased, diminished, downsized, economized, lessened, miniaturized, scaled down, shortened, shrunk, subtracted |
| Antonyms: | enlarged, increased, spread, stretched |
| Main Entry: | abridge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shorten |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, abstract, blue pencil, chop, clip, compress, concentrate, condense, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, digest, diminish, downsize, lessen, limit, narrow, put in nutshell, reduce, restrict, slash, snip, summarize, trim, truncate |
| Antonyms: | add, enlarge, expand, extend, increase, lengthen |
| Main Entry: | abstract |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prepare short document from longer one |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, abridge, condense, digest, outline, review, shorten, summarize |
| Antonyms: | complete, expand, insert, lengthen, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | compress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | compact, condense |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, abridge, abstract, bind, boil down, coagulate, concentrate, consolidate, constrict, contract, cram, cramp, crowd, crush, decrease, dehydrate, densen, densify, epitomize, force into space, make brief, narrow, pack, press, press together, ram, reduce, restrict, shorten, shrink, shrivel, squash, squeeze, stuff, summarize, syncopate, telescope, tighten, wedge, wrap |
| Antonyms: | blow up, expand, extend, fill, increase, loosen, stretch, uncompress, uncondense |
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